Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012

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Headdress

late 19th century
Length x width: 26.7 x 30.5 x 47 cm (10 1/2 x 12 x 18 1/2 in.) Lender accessory: 15.2 x 15.2 cm (6 x 6 in.)
Raffia, hair, wool

Classification: Costumes

Culture: African, Cameroon, Grassfields

Object Place: Cameroon

Accession number: 2011.483

Description: Helmet shaped cap on basketry support. Attached dreadlock-like extensions made of fiber and human hair. Appliqued on the front with red wool trade cloth.

Provenance/Ownership History: Around 2005, sold by Peter Boyd, Seattle, to a private collector; 2011, consigned by this private collector to Andres Moraga Textile Art, Berkeley, CA; 2011, sold by Andres Moraga Textile Art to the MFA. (Accession date: September 21, 2011)

Marshall H. Gould Fund